Born in London, the daughter of migrants whose story spans from India to Kenya to the UK (via Hong Kong) as a result of Empire, Deepa's always considered herself a global citizen; it's shaped the way that she thinks about and approaches connection and her place in the world.

A global consultant working across industries, markets and sectors, Deepa has provided counsel to multinationals, C-suits, governments/ civil servants and global movements. From developing global complex sustainability strategies, decoding operational risk, exploring responsible and innovative finance to evaluating and communicating global impact, she's experienced in working with all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds. Speaking the language across these isn't easy and she's adept at doing it.

A desire to understand her own context led her to work and live in India, helping set up a social investment fund focused on sustainable livelihoods and enterprise formation. She's mentored and worked with social ventures across the country as well as advised Indian conglomerates. Coupled with living, studying and working in Spain and Latin America, she is a speaker of both Hindi & Spanish which she likes to break into at any opportunity. Her love for these cultures and their community-centric approaches unsurprisingly underpins her belief in interconnection and collaborative solutions to the socio-economic and environmental challenges we face. She's also deeply suspicious of people who won't / don't share their food..

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Deepa's always been naturally curious about looking at why things are the way they are, questioning the whole system, joining the dots, seeing the interconnections and patterns, bringing these together to ask better questions and have a much more integrated approach to  finding solutions. This takes skill, intuition and the desire to push the way that we assume things to be on to its head. It's not easy. 

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Her time as Director of Collaborations and then COO of Catalyst Now (formerly 2030), has given her incredible insight into what it takes to create multi-stakeholder global movements based on collaborative systems change. From bringing people together across cultures, languages and sense of humors to operationalising a growing distributed network led by members - she's earned the grey hairs. She thrives when working with people who want to create the businesses, organisations and movements of the future. 

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Her experience has taken her from briefing UK and Foreign Ministers on human rights issues (in English and Spanish) at the age of 22, working with CSOs and CEOs of global companies on sustainability strategies, to now collaborating with and facilitating collaborations amongst some of the most inspiring changemakers in the world. It's a privilege she doesn't take lightly.

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Committed to doing the best for clients, she's known to be demanding but Deepa's also been called a friend by people she's worked with and a fixer of problems. If it involves a G&T or a chai along the way, so much the better.